Movie Review: Underworld - Blood Wars

Hard to believe the Underworld franchise has been chugging along for more than a decade and is looking at at least one more sequel before all is said and done. I actually used to enjoy this franchise, led by a latex-clad Kate Beckinsale. There is plenty of potential in an epic tale of a war between vampires and werewolves. I used to anticipate each new episode in the series to see just what was going to happen, even when they replaced Beckinsale with Rhona Mitra and took us into the past to see early monster altercations. Now, I look at a new Underworld movie and think “Another one?” It doesn’t help that I revisited the franchise recently and found them to be kind of dull. Stylish, but dull.

Movie Review: Total Recall (2012)

The works of Phillip K. Dick have been mined for cinematic adaptations for years. Why shouldn't they be? His stories are intelligent, interesting, and seemed perfectly suited to be adapted to the big screen. It has been done many times over the years with movies like Blade Runner, Minority Report, and Screamers. With this latest adaptation, it might be a case where they probably shouldn't have. It is not so much that the idea is bad, it isn't, I mean it had already been done once before. Of course, you remember the 1990 version, right?